uWSGI, Preforking and Lazy Apps
uWSGI is a flexible application container that we use extensively at ticketea. It is very popular in the Python/WSGI ecosystem. It normally sits between your...
Failfast: A simplified pythonic implementation of a Circuit Breaker
Here at ticketea we depend on many external services, some of which can be down at times, or even worse, become slow. Why is it worse...
How we migrated ticketea.com to Python 3 in two weeks
Ticketea.com is the platform where we showcase and sell the majority of our events. The software project powering it (code-named "Aphrodite"), is a moderately large...
Introducing Pynesis - a checkpointing abstraction library for AWS Kinesis
This is a long overdue post about a library we open sourced earlier this year. TLDR; it's called Pynesis (pronounced as you would pronounce Kinesis but...
Using json-schema for REST API endpoint tests
Testing REST APIs is a bit like the Wild West. There are tons of ways to do it, different approaches depending on the development language, but...